Last week two days before surgery, I spoke at Dallas Seminary's women's leadership conference. Part of my workshop focused on praying the psalms of lament. Afterward, a woman approached me privately, her eyes welling with tears. The reason for her ache: a) her pastor/boss just confessed to an adulterous relationship and b) she and her husband went to college with Ted Haggard. While dealing with her own deep sense of betrayal, she must also guide women in her care who say stuff like, "I will never again trust men." Heartbreaking!

Lots of people have commented on the Haggard mess. But the best I've read came from the word processor of "Biblegirl" at Dallas' alternative weekly. Check it out.